Paying a web development team for building thousands of blogs and websites may sound scary in itself. But after all, the small and mid-size ecommerce based businesses may indeed find it necessary to launch countless websites. So, here’s a great open source CMS solution – the Wordpress MU. It is the abbreviation of WordPress multi-user, which helps you to manage thousands of blogs with a single installation of WordPress.
Usually the Open Source CMS like Wordpress are believed to be suitable only for personal usage and managing blogs, but it is nothing more than a myth as thousands of non-profitable as well as small business organizations are using it as their content management system. If you think using Wordpress as CMS for a large reputed organization may hamper its rapport, well think again. It hardly matters if you’re a fortune 500 listed big shot MNC, one of the renowned newspapers and magazines like Le Monde, whether you run historical Universities like Harvard, or simply run niche-specific blog hosts like Edublogs, the Wordpress MU is a great solution.
Basically it offers everything that WordPress does, but apart from the regular Wordpress CMS functionality, it is helpful in scaling to tens of millions of page-views per day, allows unlimited users and blogs, along with different permissions on different blogs.
Moreover, for all the enterprises, agencies like the Automatic Support Network also offer dedicated WordPress MU support, providing you with the feel-good enterprise stuff.
For personal usage as well as small-size businesses, the WordPress-savvy consultants are best bets, and they turn out to be a lot more economical than paying a web development team to create hundreds of CMS. Above all, you get free support on hundreds of forums, and all the documentation is available as well.
Hence, when you can get all the features of a highly complex custom CMS such as feeds,
UTC friendly operation, convenient user management, User profiles, Easy installation (not to mention the free upgrades), what’s the point in re-inventing the wheel and paying someone to achieve the same functionality. Moreover, the famous 5 minute installation of Wordpress can never be beaten by any custom CMS.
What’s more……. no rebuilding of the pages is required whenever you update the weblog. It also supports Internationalization and Localization, so you can also use Wordpress for various language-specific websites like Dutch, Latin, Portuguese and many more.
Creating custom CMS for managing thousands of websites and blogs may be extremely tedious, time consuming, and above all, you will have to do rigorous testing before you even think of using it in production environment. Open source CMS like Wordpress & Wordpress MU are thoroughly tested by thousands of users, and hence you can easily rely on them as well. After all, fixing a few odd bugs is far better than spending thousands of dollars on investment, and still be afraid of hundreds of bugs in turn. Today, undeniably Wordpress has become one of the best bets and is replacing most of the small custom content management systems.
